Improvement in mangles



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HEINRICH ALBER-S, OF HANOVER, PRUSSIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MANGLES.

Specicaton forming part of Letters Patent No. 205,168, dated June 25A,1878; application filed March 1, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HEINRICH ALBERs, of Hanover, Prussia, have inventeda Clothes- Mangling Machine, of which the following is a specification:

The present invention relates to certain improvements in clothes mangling or smoothing machines; and it consists in the construction andcombination of parts which will be more fully described hereinafter, andthen set forth in t-he claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication, Figure lis a longitudinal sectional View of a clothes-mangle constructedaccording to my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 isa side elevation of the machine. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section taken onthe line A B of Fig. l. Fig.

V5 is a transverse vertical section through the line YC D of Fig. 2.Fig. 6 is an end elevation of the machine.

The letter t' designates a table-top, which is provided with a verticalguard-ledge, n, at each side thereof, for preventing the clothes frompassing beyond the table. A longitudinal rack-bar, a., is secured toeach side of the table-top, outside of the ledges thereof and below thetop level of the latter. A cylinder or roller, d, moves back and forthon the table, so as to mangle the clothes or fabrics placed on thetable, the machine differing in this respect from machines for a likepurpose in which the clothes are placed on a table or bed reciprocatingbeneath a revolving roller journaled in stationary bearings.

The` necessaryr reciprocating motion is imparted to the mangling orsmoothing roller throughthe medium of spur-disks b, securely Xed on theshaft of the roller and engaging with the rack-bars of the tabletop.

The roller is rotated by means of a shaft, b, having a crank, p, at oneend, and carrying pinons b', which mesh into the spur-disks of theroller.

The driving-shaft and the roller are both journaled in vertical sidestandards l1., the lower ends of which are slotted for the passage oftransverse leverso o', located beneath the table-top. These levers crosseach other, and they carry weights f, which serve to exert the requisitepressure upon the mangling-roller in order to press the same upon theclothes.

It may be stated that the weighted levers are fulcrumed in the sidestandards supporting the roller, and that the ends of the leversprojecting beyond said standards are hooked, so as to receive the upperends of skeleton plates or bars g, the lower ends of which are connectedby transverse tie-rods, so as to form a supporting-frame for theweighted levers.

Arms g are pivoted to the frame-plates g and to the table-legs, so as tosuspend said frame-plates and permit the same to swing back and forth inunison with the reciprocating movement given to the mangling-roller.

The position which the parts mentioned assume is more clearly shown inFig. l.

The table-top is strengthened by the side and middle bars K m, and issupported upon legs o, which are connected with side bars by means ofcorner-pieces l.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The swinging supporting-frame, in combination with the weighted levers,the supporting arms, the revolving and reciprocating mangling-roller,and the table, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

HEINRICH ALBERS.

Witnesses:

W. SCHWARTZ, A. M. SIMON.

